Ever stood over a recycling bin wondering if that plastic packaging, block of Styrofoam or old can of paint in your hand can be recycled? Such confusion often leads to wishcycling — that is, putting t ...

Nearly 50 years after it was discovered that an estimated 4,500 barrels filled with toxic waste were dumped and buried on a 650-acre strip mine in northwestern Washington County, federal environmental ...

Nearly 50 years after it was discovered that an estimated 4,500 barrels filled with toxic waste were dumped and buried on a 650-acre strip mine in northwestern Washington County, federal environmental ...

This story is published in partnership with DeSmog, the climate investigations site. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century casts serious doubt on the safety of the oil and gas ...

Dozens of people in a sprawling homeless encampment in Oxnard were arrested while crews with the Union Pacific Railroad coordinated the removal of more than 33 tons of debris and hazardous waste along ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the ...

The suspects are among 33 people accused of involvement in shipping a cargo of dangerous industrial waste from Albania to Thailand. The ship Moliva, carrying suspected hazardous waste, docked at Porto ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thailand rejected the cargo after an environmental group claimed it contained illegal toxic waste, forcing its return to Albania ...

Albanian police arrested 20 people over their role in smuggling toxic waste from the Balkan country to Thailand, the force said Wednesday. The arrests come over a year after the prosecutor's office in ...

Albanian police arrested 20 people over their role in toxic-waste trafficking from the Balkan country to Thailand, police said Wednesday. The arrests come more than a year after the Durres ...

A western Wayne County landfill that stores and disposes of hazardous waste and toxic chemicals has been given the go-ahead to expand by 5 million cubic yards. The Michigan Department of Environment, ...

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is approving a new hazardous waste landfill operating license for the controversial Wayne Disposal Inc. facility in Van Buren Township.